Mariko Okada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mariko Okada (岡田 茉莉子, Okada Mariko, born 11 January 1933) is a Japanese stage and film actress who starred in films of directors Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita and others. She was married to film director Yoshishige Yoshida. Okada was born the daughter of silent film actor Tokihiko Okada (real name Eiichi Takahashi), who died the year following her birth, and raised by her mother's sister in her early childhood. She gave her film debut in Mikio Naruse's 1951 Dancing Girl, for whom she worked again in Husband and Wife, Floating Clouds and Nagareru. Unsatisfied with the roles she was assigned to, she left Toho studios after her contract expired, and signed with Shochiku. In the following years, she starred in Yasujirō Ozu's Late Autumn and An Autumn Afternoon, Keisuke Kinoshita's Spring Dreams and The Scent of Incense, and Heinosuke Gosho's Hunting Rifle. Between 1965 and 1971, she starred in all of Yoshida's films, independently produced melodramas narrated in an avant-garde fashion. In later years, she appeared in films like Juzo Itami's Tampopo and Shinji Aoyama's My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005), her last film role to date. She also regularly performed on stage and on television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mariko Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Tampopo
as Spaghetti TeacherIn this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit...
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An Autumn Afternoon
as AkikoShuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as AkemiStruggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to...
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Late Autumn
as Yukiko SasakiA woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as AkemiAfter years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as AkemiA humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...
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A Taxing Woman
as Mitsuko SugiuraIntrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering...
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Floating Clouds
as Sei MukaiA married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
as Riku OhishiThis is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...
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Spring Dreams
as Chizuko OkudairaWhen a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their...
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
as Kyoko YasugiObayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the...
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Heroic Purgatory
as NanakoRikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako...
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Appassionata
as Sei ShimamuraThis story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of...
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The Scent of Incense
as TomokoAfter her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her...
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The Radish and the Carrot
as uncreditedOne day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
as ShinkoYoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and...
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
as NaviA.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the...
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Eros + Massacre
as Noe Ito / Mako ItoTwo interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his...
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The Days of Evil Women
as uncreditedThe common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune,...
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Flowing
as NanakoOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter...
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Dancing Girl
as ShinakoThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved...
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Affair in the Snow
as Yuriko AnzaiIn an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her...
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The Face
as Akiko MizuharaA notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the...
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Farewell Rabaul
as Sumiko KomatsuA squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they...
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1750 Days of Turbulence
as uncreditedAfter the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as Yasukichi's SisterA screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following...
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I Lived, But...
as SelfAn extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...
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I Am a Cat
as HanakoNakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens...
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Husband and Wife
as Kumiko, Shigekichi's sisterA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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Proof of the Man
as Kyoko YasugiWhen an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail...
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The Geisha House
as Hanaman's ownerSet in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story...
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Flower in a Storm
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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Sing, Young People
as Mariko OkadaA story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as RikaIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as RikaIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...
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A Story Written with Water
as Shizuka MatsutaniStruggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about...
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
as uncreditedWhen a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to...
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Frozen River
as uncreditedA young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with...
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Impasse
as Tatsuko IbukiShingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko...
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A Man Among Men
as MichikoGangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but...
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Escape from Hell
as KumiThis suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a...
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The Lone Journey
as OtakaForced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. ...
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Rainy Night Duel
as Kikuko KamoMasahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman....
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Women in Prison
as Kazuko Hirai, prisonerThe woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There...
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Umi no Chizu
as AkikoAkiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby...
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The Lovers
as YoshiComedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son...
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Confessions Among Actresses
as Kyoko IchimoriIn this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from...
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Hot Corner Murder
as AikoProsecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
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Illusion of Blood
as OiwaThe ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
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Woman of the Lake
as Miyako MizukiA married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a...
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Two Wives
as uncreditedAfter a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a...
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The Affair
as OrikoAs a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with...
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Cross-Currents
as Fujie KaizukaA ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager...
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No Time for Tears
as uncreditedCoach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher...
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The Whisper of Spring
as uncreditedAfter graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko,...
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Bridge
as uncreditedA 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
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Women in the Mirror
as Ai KawaseThree women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties...
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as SuzuyoYoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is...
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Tale of Scarlet Love
as uncreditedAssistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a...
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Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
as SelfAn overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure...
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Shirai Gonpachi
as KomurasakiThe film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the...
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Tokyo Omnibus
as uncreditedThe story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow...
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Hunting Rifle
as Midori MisugiStory of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger...
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Adolescence
as Mayumi NishidaParent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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This Year's Love
as uncreditedHikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love...
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Farewell to the Summer Light
as Naoko TobaA spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married...
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Records of loyal vassals
as OkatsuIn the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death...
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Hakuro no Shibijin
as Kazuko IzawaThe wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood...
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Domineering
as Hiroko TadokoroWhen the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Yakuza bayashi
as uncreditedMakino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
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Wedding Season
as uncreditedUrban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks...
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An Edoite Judge
as KotoPeriod film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
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White Fish
as KunikoA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a...
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Three Sisters
as Nagai MuraThe Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the...
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